Undersea Warfighting Development Center

Innovative, Adaptive, Responsive

Undersea Warfighting Development CenterRDML Butch Dollaga, Commander

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SENEDIA “Defense Innovation Days”27AUG2019

2Innovative, Adaptive, Responsive

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Return to Major Power Competition

A Threat-Based World Changes Everything


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Return to Major Power Competition

A Threat-Based World Changes Everything


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Putin’s Future Weapons


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Xi Future Weapons


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U.S. Naval Superiority is NOT Guaranteed

Naval

Power

Time

More Capable

Platforms

Networked Platforms

More Platforms

and…Need Fasterthan Current Pace Allows!

Current

Fleet /

Force

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R e n e w e d U r g e n c y i n R & D i s N e e d e d t o W i n


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Undersea Warfighting – Now

Geography: GlobalPacific / Atlantic / Med / AG / Homeland

Training & Assessment Emphasis: Theater (+)

Complexity / Threat:Large #’s / Advanced Capabilities

(Sophisticated adversary)

Tactical Development:Subs / Weapons / UxV / IUSS /

Coordinated Operations

• Joint / Theater-Combined / Fleet

• ‘High End’ Fight

• Multiple Strike Groups

• Modern Warfighting

• Electromagnetic Warfare


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Combat-Ready Force…

… Our Nation’s #1 Priority!Resilient, Equipped, & trained Combat-Ready Response


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Integrated Fleet USW Operations(Dets Norfolk/San Diego)

Undersea Platforms(Tactical Analysis Group / Arctic Sub Lab / Sub Learning Center)

UWDC Lines of Effort

Develop Doctrine, CONOPS & Tactics for USW

Assess USW Performance & Warfighting Readiness

Training for Undersea Platforms & Integrated Fleet Ops

Advance Undersea Capability, Wholeness & Synchronization

Decisive effects “from or in” the Undersea Domain


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VIRGINA Class

Payload Module

Adapt Faster, Innovate More

COLUMBIA Class

• VACL 2/yr Build Rate

• Large Vertical Array

• Grow Longer Arms

• 12 SSBNs

• 42 year reactor

• Electric drive


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Adapt Faster, Innovate More


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Technology Innovation “Vectors”

Required Technologies... Field them Faster!


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Demonstrate

Assess & Integrate

Rapidly Acquire

High Velocity Outcomes

URCI RPED TACDEV

OPERATIONAL PROTOTYPING

WARGAMES TTP CONOPS

DARPA

Academia

Industry

UARCs

SCODIUx

FFRDCs

ONR

Navy

LabsWarfare

Centers

GUIDE

SELECTSUBLANT

SUBPAC

OPNAV

TAB Working Group

CHAMPIONTransition Advisory Board

(TAB)CSF-ED NAVSEA-07

N97B UWDC Deputy

UWDC

NAVSEA

PEO-IWS

TEMPALTS OPALTS SHIPALTS

SPIRAL DEV POR INSERT ARCI


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D - Tactical doctrine & system procedures

A - Real-world & Exercise Analysis, Sub Ops Group

T - Linkage to platform training, Special Capabilities

A - WDCs, Embeds/Liaisons, Sub Tactical Req’t Group

Submarine Warfare

Tactical Analysis Group (TAG)

UAVOASUW

Acoustic

Superiority

Small UUV

EM Spectrum +

Next Generation

Land Attack

Weapon

Future Other Missiles

LDUUV / ULRM

Submarine Doctrine & Tactics for today...and tomorrow

Future HWT


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Strike Group ASW

Norfolk/San Diego

Lose Bottom sensor

D - Sea Combat Commander Doctrine; Navy Tactical Pubs

A - “Crawl / walk / run” exercises; wargames

T - Integrated training, senior leader academics

A - WDC Integration, SCC Course

Close-in protection of the strike group


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Theater USW

Norfolk/San Diego

Unmanned Systems

Netted SensorsUndersea ConstellationNew Technologies

D - Theater ASW Commander (TASWC) Doctrine

A - High-end exercises and Fleet certifications

T - Academics and synthetic training

A - Fleet Collaborative Team

Taking the fight forward...best defense is a good offense!


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Integrated ASW Training

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Classroom

Synthetic

Live (at sea)

Type

Commander

Certification

UWDC-led

Integrated

Training

UWDC-led

Integrated

Training

UWDC **

Integrated

Training

UWDC **

Integrated

Training

** UWDC leads & supports

UWDC **

Integrated

Training

Diffic

ulty

/ Co

mp

lexity

~40 ± Mentors...24/7 underway

UWDC trains all Strike Groups and Theater ASW Staffs


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Submarine Warfare—Arctic Sub Lab

Small UUV

Operating in the Arctic...today and tomorrow


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UUVs are Coming!

XLUUV


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Naval STEM Camps

NIUVT

University Research

Undergrad/Grad Projects

Navy-university-industry partnership to

advance the capabilities of the next

generation US undersea fleet


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Project Harbinger

• Apply Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning to acoustics in the

undersea domain.

• Develop a data strategy for the undersea domain.

• Build and execute a scalable AI/ML pipeline that establishes an

infrastructure, policy and procedures pertaining to data acquisition,

data curation, data engineering, data labeling, algorithm development,

and algorithm deployment.


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UWDC—The Bottom Line

Mission: Lead Undersea Superiority

Vision: Bold and empowered Undersea Warfighting professionals

enabling sustained fleet combat operations to and from the

undersea

Lines of Effort:

D – Develop Doctrine, CONOPS, and Tactics for USW

A – Assess USW performance and warfighting readiness

T – Training for Undersea platforms and integrated fleet operations

A – Advance Undersea capability, wholeness, and synchronization

Values: DATA Driven, We are Innovative, Adaptive, and Responsive

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